Huntsville gazette., 1887-02-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.

NEWS IN BRIEF.
CompiIed from Various Sources.
TIE sanitary condition Of Buenos Ayres
e now reported good. cholera having dis
anneared from Cordova.
John D. HERMAN, a son Of ex-senator
Kernan, of New York, is talked of for q
n1ace on the Interstate Commerce Com.
mission.
Roth houses of the Wisconsin Legisl a.
+nre met in Joint session, on the Goth, and
philetus Sawyer was officially declared
elected United States Senator.
TUT nomination of James G. Mathews, OF
Albany, N Y, to be Recorder of Deeds for
tbe District of Columbia, was again re
;pcted bv the Senate on the Goth.
NOTARY GANDAR, of Metz Germany, has
failed for 100000 marks, and the district
is 90 excited that Gandar, fearing VIC.
lence applied for police protection.
uoy. GEORGE Ell. PENDLEToN, United
states Minister to Germany, was among
tbe passengers on the steamer Saale from
Bremen, which arrived at New York on
the goth.
DAKOTA and Montana were visited on
The 29th by the worst blizzard known for
rears. Trains in every direction were
either abandoned or were stuck fast in
the snow
The Berlin correspondent of the London
Daily Ne1cS says he hears that the whole
German army is to be called out in sec
tons Of 1000 men to be drilled in the use
of the repeating rifle.
IT is announced at Ottawa, Ont, that
British war ships are to be sent to Cana
dian waters in the spring to aid the
Canadian authorities in enforcing the
fisheries regulations.
THE Chinese Minister at Washin gton
celebrated his birthday on the night of the
2Sth by pleasant party of one hundred
and fifty guests at the legation residence.
The invitations were verbal.
THE joint resolution submitting pro-
hibitory amendment to the Constitution
was passed in the Michigan Senate on the
9th. The question will be submitted at
the State election next April.
THE jury in the case of the wife of Prof
Emmons, on trial in Washington as to her
sanity, decided on the 18th that the lady is
sane enough to take care of herself, and
that the professor can not have her con
fined in an asylum.
THE Mexican gunboat Democrat arrived
at Guaymas on the 9th with Cajeme, the
Yaqui chief, prisoner. This ends the
war between the Yaquis and the Mexi
cans, which lasted two years. 1t is be
lieved that Cajeme named his own terms
The will Of the late Bishop Horatio Pot
ter, bearing date April 26 1915, was filed
in the Surrogate's Office in New York on
the 9th. No charitable bequests re
mentioned in the paper, and the estate is
bequeathed to the children of the testa-
tor
Hon. SAMUEL SHELLABARGER, in behalf
OF the Cattle-Growers' Association, ap-
peared before the Senate committee on
agriculture, at Washington, on the Goth,
and submitted constitutional argument
IN support of the Miller bill to extirpate
pleuropneumonia
CONCERNING the health of Con gresham
Cox, Of New York, Mrs Cox, in a note.
says; so many friends write that they
are watching the papers for further news
rs 10 ms illness, VIII you please say that
ne continues to improve, though very
slowly. He is quite weak and neither sees
nor hears his mail"
FULLY 1850 persons attended the serv-
YES commemorative of General John A.
logan at Grand Army Hall, Williams burg,
- l., on the evening of the Goth. The serv-
,s ICES were held under the auspices of
mansfield Post, No. 35, G.. A. R. The hall
was appropriately decorated and the serv-
ICES were impressive.
lHE President received the Interstate
commerce bill on the Goth, and has re-
lerred it to the Acknowledgement for ex-
animation. 1t is not likely that the Presi-
ueAt Will act upon the bill much before
AptA dliOn CI tue zen udgS poFlOu "A
uulhoer Of applications have already been
.ecelVed for appointment on the commits
S"h provided for in the bill
o
~ preconcerted arrangement, notice
"as posted on the 27th in most of the
,toV UyoV and shoe factories at Worcester,
Mss ,nass'' and in Spencer, that those factories
VIII VIII oe open only to such opera tives as
s sA agree to deal individually with the
III I'm employing them. This movement
sIecIS large number of operatives
'HIoughout Worcester County.
n me secretary OF the Navy sent to the
@ouse committee on naval affairs large
4eooel 4Tgoel OF gunboat No. 1, which is to be of
4" tons burden, with six six-inch rifles,
.e hotchkiss cannon and one gatling
90 SUI The model is attracting a good deal
talVentlon, and is arousing some enthu-
''''u on the subject of new navy.
s+r"ehty thousand men are now on -.le
sSalt among the coal shovelers, long
,-oielhen, freight handlers and men en-